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Iii and the late ronald reagan from when he was president. joining us is lawrence bender, the producer of "countdown to zero." thank you for being here. >> so great to be here. >> you talked to mikhail gorbachev in the film. for all his regrets about not being able to reduce nukes more with ronald reagan, he seems optimistic about president obama's agenda. do you feel the same way? >> optimistic? >> yeah. >> you know, it's funny, i do. i feel this is an idea whose time has come. it's one of these things where this is not a liberal idea anymore. as you said, ronald reagan started this whole thi...

Material of course and brought it into the senate. i think everyone said, this is a problem. >> it's an incredible story and issue. you've done a really good job i think lighting the fire under a lot of people. really good to meet you. lawrence bender, producer of "countdown to zero." if you have the opportunity to see it,ç you should. house republicans' latest outreach called america speaking out. when they say america, they mean a small sliver of america. that's next. [ male announcer ] why all the excitement? because new chips ahoy made with reese's peanut butter cups are here. our real...

Well, a test of u.s. diplomacy at the nuclear security summit over the course of just two days, president obama hopes to get 46 world leaders and their top officials to agree on how to stop the threat of nuclear terrorism. he's also trying to reach a consensus on sanctions against iran. joseph ciccione is a member of the council of foreign releases. just to sort of set the stage here, you were in the movie that we talked about last week, "countdown to zero" which talks about this threat of nukes getting into the hands of terrorists. >> great film. >> you said something so strike in that movie,...

Step plan for verified reduction leading to elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide. countdown to zero is a chilling wake-up call. it will be released on july 9th. it will help to inform decision-makers as well as the general public about the very real dangers that we face. and those who speak in the film are experts, who understand the history and the present threat that we face. so, these -- i think it's very important there be an education process for people that really realize the clear and present danger that we face. we have enough -- nine nuclear states with about 23,000 nuclear weapon...

The united states and the level of technological and other resources it's been able to bring to it's nuclear arsenal if you will. on the other hand, this film countdown to zero which is produced by participant productions and lawrence bender who produced "inconvenient truth" and a range of other very important documentaries on critical issues today, spells out very clearly the accidents that have -- and the almost catastrophic nuclear accidents that have taken place, even with all of those safeguards, and we look at the rest of the world where there are so many states where there is highly enr...